Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pers pn] look [adv prt] " in BNC.

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1 As you say , whenever I looked up , there he 'd be . ’
2 ‘ And at home by the fire , whenever you look up , there I 'll be , and whenever I look up , there you 'll be . ’
3 ‘ And at home by the fire , whenever you look up , there I 'll be , and whenever I look up , there you 'll be . ’
4 The curtains were drawn back as far as they would go , and whenever she looked up the green-brown panorama confronted her and the pale bowl of sky .
5 She tried to find herself on the map , but the printed boulevards and blocks writhed whenever she looked up at the street , making new patterns .
6 But whenever he looks up — or puts down his book , you 're there , are n't you ? ’
7 It is like a man who sows round his garden flowers and aromatic herbs ; whenever he looks out , he sees flowers and aromatic herbs and is always in paradise .
8 What a silly question of course it matters how you look up there , yes
9 She turned her head , staring at him , noting how he looked down rather than meet her eyes , and knew at once that he was lying to her .
10 It was only when I looked up to my right and saw the board that I realized I had come to the right place .
11 The next morning , when I looked out to sea , there was no ship .
12 ‘ At the time it was a shock , but afterwards when I looked back the signs had been there .
13 ‘ It 's when I look down I do n't like it . ’
14 He had severely limited the scope of his autobiography : ‘ I depict not what I was but what I see when I look back ’ , he told Eleanor Farjeon .
15 Stuffing the ‘ Hydracals ’ will be one of my most cherished memories when I look back on my spell as manager of Athletico Whaddon .
16 See my nick name in the T A was Vicky , she probably felt save with somebody named Vicky see people started called me van witty and then it got changed to Wicky then somebody started called me Vicky and it stuck , she probably thought I 'd got a You know when I look back now I fucking enjoyed in the T A
17 Jay found Lucy 's eyes on her sometimes when she looked up , but there was little enough time to meet .
18 Rosie cringed and showed the whites of her eyes when she looked up at her master .
19 About nine o'clock on that same evening , she was in her front garden watering her plants when she looked up to see Jenny and Paul advancing down the path .
20 This time when she looked up he was watching her .
21 She 'd been digging for a while when she looked up to swing the stone in her hand on to the pile , and saw Clare standing there .
22 Time passing never softened the impact of that moment when she looked down the table to where Twomey waited for Aunt Tossie to give her attention to the pudding he offered .
23 It , do it now while you 're young , while you 've got your strength , because there will come days when you look around and you think well I just wish I could do that again , and that 's the way we 're made , and that 's the way it will always be in this system of things , but there 's lots of little things that we , you and I , can work on to help us to stay spiritually alert , vigilant and awake .
24 ‘ Obviously , in the last few years when you look back and see that it had an impact in the field , then it becomes a possibility . ’
25 Today when you look down from the top of the mountain which once provided jobs for 85 per cent of the male population you 're looking down on one of the poorest cities in Bolivia.When the price of tin crashed on the world markets in 1985 the state mines were closed down and 25,000 people lost their jobs .
26 Alternatively , and no less awe-inspiring , if the cloud conditions are right , you ascend through the mist until you break out into the sun somewhere before the summit from where you look down on a sea of white cloud with many peaks bursting through .
27 Not like the old days when we looked up to you .
28 Nowadays , when we look back at old photographs and films of the 1950s rock and roll craze , and the Teddy Boys , it is easy to wonder what all the fuss was about .
29 We 're working at things which the players might not appreciate at the moment but they will in 10 years time when they look back on what they have achieved .
30 The poem , addressed in its final form to Charles Lamb , followed his friends in imagination as they walked first ‘ along the hill-top edge ’ , then descended to the waterfall in the ‘ roaring dell ’ at Holford , and climbed at last high into the Quantocks , from where they looked out upon ‘ the many-steepled tract magnificent ’ of the coastal plain .
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